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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Childrens Book Award

Master List 2015 2016
AUTHOR
Acampora, Paul
Alexander, Kwame
Auxier, Jonathan
Bell, Cece
Berry, Julie
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Erskine, Kathryn
Fitzgerald, Laura Marx
Gebhart, Ryan
Graff, Lisa
Hagen, George
Herrera, Robin
Holm, Jennifer L.
Johnson, Jaleigh
Johnson, Terry Lynn
Klise, James
Lawson, Jessica
Levy, Dana Alison
Lovejoy, Sharon
Martin, Ann M.
Milford, Kate
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Oppel, Kenneth
Perkins, Lynne Rae
Romero, Jordan
Sheinkin, Steve
Snyder, Laurel
Sovern, Megan Jean
Unsworth, Tania
Vail, Rachel

TITLE
I Kill the Mockingbird
The Crossover
The Night Gardener
El Deafo
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
The Madman of Piney Woods
The Badger Knight
Under the Egg
There Will Be Bears
Absolutely Almost
Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle
Hope Is a Ferris Wheel
The Fourteenth Goldfish
The Mark of the Dragonfly
Ice Dogs
The Art of Secrets
The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
Running Out of Night
Rain Reign
Greenglass House
The Turtle of Oman
The Boundless
Nuts to You
No Summit Out of Sight
The Port Chicago 50
Seven Stories Up
The Meaning of Maggie
The One Safe Place
Unfriended

PUBLISHER
Roaring Brook
Houghton Mifflin
Amulet
Amulet
Roaring Brook
Scholastic Press
Scholastic Press
Dial
Candlewick
Philomel
Schwartz & Wade
Amulet
Random
Delacorte
Houghton Mifflin
Algonquin
Simon & Schuster
Delacorte
Delacorte
Feiwel & Friends
Clarion
Greenwillow
Simon & Schuster
Greenwillow
Simon & Schuster
Roaring Brook
Random
Chronicle
Algonquin
Viking

GRADE
6 up
6 up
7 up
4 up
6 up
5 up
6 up
5 up
5 up
5 up
5 up
5 up
4 up
6 up
5 up
7 up
5 up
4 up
6 up
5 up
6 up
4 up
6 up
4 up
6 up
6 up
4 up
5 up
7 up
6 up

These books, to be read during the 2015-2016 school year, comprise the master list for the award to be
made in 2016. The master list titles have been selected to satisfy the reading interests of children in
grades 4-8. Please note grade level before ordering the books. The grades listed should be regarded
more as maturity levels than reading levels.

MASTERLIST OF ANNOTATIONS
Acampora, Paul. I Kill the Mockingbird. Roaring Brook. $16.99. ISBN 978-1596437425. When best friends
Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill a
Mockingbird included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they
hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic.
Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover. Houghton Mifflin. $16.99. ISBN 978-0544107717. Fourteen-year-old
twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their
father ignores his declining health.
Auxier, Jonathan. The Night Gardener. Amulet. $16.95. ISBN 978-1419711442. Irish orphans Molly,
fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where
nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious
stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Bell, Cece. El Deafo. Amulet. $21.95. ISBN 978-1419710209. A hearing aid grants "superpowers" in this
graphic novel memoir about growing up deaf. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear
sometimes things she shouldn't but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants
to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is.
Berry, Julie. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. Roaring Brook. $15.99. ISBN 9781596439566. The students of St Etheldreda's School for Girls face a dilemma. Their irascible
headmistress, Mrs Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr Godding, have been most inconveniently
poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent
home unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Madman of Piney Woods. Scholastic. $16.99. ISBN 978-0545156646. Benji
and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town.
But their fates are entwined. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest,
watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real?
Erskine, Kathryn. The Badger Knight. Scholastic. $17.99. ISBN 978-0545464420. In England in 1346,
Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years; he is an albino, so people are
suspicious of him; and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer. But
when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns that war
can be a lot more complicated then he imagined.
Fitzgerald, Laura Marx. Under the Egg. Dial. $16.99. ISBN 978-0803740013. Her grandfather's dying
words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may
be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a
real treasure.
Gebhart, Ryan. There Will Be Bears. Candlewick. $16.99. ISBN 978-0763665210. Thirteen-year-old Tyson
sneaks off with his roughneck, but ill, grandpa to go on his first elk hunt, amid reports of a
stalking man-eating grizzly.

Graff, Lisa. Absolutely Almost. Philomel. $16.99. ISBN 978-0399164057. Ten-year-old Albie has never
been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents
keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in
himself.
Hagen, George. Gabriel Finley and the Ravens Riddle. Schwartz & Wade. $16.99. ISBN 978-0385371032.
Eleven-year-old Gabriel, helped by a young raven with whom he has a magical bond, travels to
the forbidding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to
rescue his long-missing father.
Herrera, Robin. Hope Is a Ferris Wheel. Amulet. $16.95. ISBN 978-1419710391. After moving from
Oregon to a trailer park in California, ten-year-old Star participates in a poetry club, where she
learns some important lessons about herself and her own hopes and dreams for the future.
Holm, Jennifer L. The Fourteenth Goldfish. Random. $16.99. ISBN 978-0375870644. Ellie's scientist
grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager
which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his
daughter.
Johnson, Jaleigh. The Mark of the Dragonfly. Delacorte. $16.99. ISBN 978-0385376150. Since her father's
death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a
scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous
journey to distant lands.
Johnson, Terry Lynn. Ice Dogs. Houghton Mifflin. $16.99. ISBN 978-0547899268. Victoria Secord, a 14year-old dog musher, has been struggling in the year since her father died. While out on a run
with the dogs, she finds and rescues an injured city boy, but after getting lost in a blizzard it will
take all her survival skills for Victoria to lead everyone to safety.
Klise, James. The Art of Secrets. Algonquin. $16.95. ISBN 978-1616201951. When Saba Khans apartment
burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her Chicago high school rallies around her.
Then a quirky piece of art donated to a school fund-raising effort for the Khans is revealed to be
an unknown work by a famous artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Sabas life
turns upside down again.
Lawson, Jessica. The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher. Simon & Schuster. $16.99. ISBN
978-1481401500. In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri,
joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise
to have adventures which she made to her brother Jon before he died.
Levy, Alison Dana. The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher. Delacorte. $15.99. ISBN 978-0385376525.
The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans
for success veering off in unexpected and sometimes disastrous directions. And at home, their
miserable new neighbor complains about everything. As the year continues, the boys learn the
hard and often hilarious lesson that sometimes what you least expect is what you come to care
about the most.

Lovejoy, Sharon. Running Out of Night. Delacorte. $16.99. ISBN 978-0385744096. Every day is a misery
for a nameless, motherless Southern girl who is treated cruelly by her pa and brothers. Her life
changes forever when a runaway slave named Zenobia turns to her for help and shelter. Longing
for her own freedom, the girl decides to run away, and she and Zenobia set off on a harrowing
journey.
Martin, Ann M. Rain Reign. Feiwel & Friends. $16.99. ISBN 978-0312643003. Struggling with Asperger's,
Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is
forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order
to search for her pet.
Milford, Kate. Greenglass House. Clarion. $17.99. ISBN 978-0544052703. At Greenglass House, a
smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter
holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house, sending
Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. The Turtle of Oman. Greenwillow. $16.99. ISBN 978-0062019721. When Aref, a
third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to
Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the
country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
Oppel, Kenneth. The Boundless. Simon & Schuster. $17.99. ISBN 978-1442472884. Aboard "The
Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will
enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
Perkins, Lynne Rae. Nuts to You. Greenwillow. $16.99. ISBN 978-0060092757. The squirrels Jed, TsTs,
and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to
another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new
friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat
variety) and mysteries are revealed.
Romero, Jordan. No Summit Out of Sight. Simon & Schuster. $17.99. ISBN 978-1476709628. American
teenager Jordan Romero recounts the experience of becoming, at age thirteen, the youngest
person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. Two years later he became the youngest
person to reach the summits of the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents a dream
come true after many years of training and hard work.
Sheinkin, Steve. The Port Chicago 50. Roaring Brook. $19.99. ISBN 978-1596437968. Presents an account
of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who
were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly
Port Chicago explosion.
Snyder, Laurel. Seven Stories Up. Random. $16.99. ISBN 978-0375869174. In 1987, while her mother sits
in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie
travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her
feisty grandmother.

Sovern, Megan Jean. The Meaning of Maggie. Chronicle. $16.99. ISBN 978-1452110219. Eleven-year-old
Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also
facing a lot of problems like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who
is out of work and in a wheelchair.
Unsworth, Tania. The One Safe Place. Algonquin. $15.95. ISBN 978-1616203290. In a near future world
of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that
promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the
home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombielike sickness that afflicts some children.
Vail, Rachel. Unfriended. Viking. $16.99. ISBN 978-0670013074. When thirteen-year-old Truly is invited
to sit at the Popular Table, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings,
made inescapable by the hyperconnected social media world.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Committee Members

2014-2015
Chair of the DCF Committee:

Consultant to DCF Award Committee:

Hannah Peacock
Burnham Memorial Library
898 Main St.
Colchester, VT 05446
Phone: (802) 264-5660
email: hpeacock@colchestervt.gov

Sharon Colvin
Youth Services Consultant
Vermont Deptartment of Libraries
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609-0601
Phone: (802) 828-6954
email: sharon.colvin@state.vt.us

Meg Allison
Moretown Elementary School

Caitlin Corless
Essex Free Library

Lisa Buckton
Colchester Middle School

Jane Knight
Bear Pond Books, Montpelier

Lauren Chabot
Main Street Middle School, Montpelier

Julie Pickett
Stowe Free Library

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